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" and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry... "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 55
1819
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Supplement to the Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the ...

William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected from all other books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft...
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Remarks on revelation & infidelity, speeches delivered in a literary society ...

A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,...
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The Bible in Many Tongues

Bible - 1799 - 204 pages
...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated...
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Self-improvement: Chiefly Addressed to the Young...

John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age...
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 7

1804 - 508 pages
...thus: I HAVE REGULARLY AND ATTENTIVELY READ THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; AND I AM OF OPINION THAT THE SACRED VOLUME, INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS...CAN BE COLLECTED FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS, IN WHATEVER AGE OR LANGUAGE THEY MAY HAVE" BEEN COMPOSED. Here the Inscription might perish, unless it should be...
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The Gospel Its Own Witness

Andrew Fuller - Deism - 1801 - 340 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from all other books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte...
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Mentor, Or, The Moral Conductor of Youth: From the Academy to Manhood ...

David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,...
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The triumphs of Christianity over infidelity displayed, or the coming of the ...

N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...his Bible. " I have regularly " and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin,...be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 11

Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...contain, independently of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever • Tacit. Hist. lib....
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 4

1803 - 474 pages
...true fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift, are connected...
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